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Date: 1902-1975

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Description: inscribed Bellmer and numbered 3/8

bronze

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Dimensions: 52.5cm., 20 5/8 in.

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Provenance: Galerie André-François Petit, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

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Published: Jean Saucet, Hans Bellmer, Paris, 1971, p. 80, illustration in colour of a painted cast
Hommage à Hans Bellmer (exhibition catalogue), Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, 1975, p. 2, illustration of a painted cast
"Bellmer", in Obliques (special issue), France, 1979, p. 256, illustration of a painted cast
Harry Jancovici, Bellmer, Dessins et sculptures, Paris, 1983, p. 31, illustration of a painted cast
Peter Webb, Hans Bellmer, London, 1985, pl. XXXVIII, illustration in colour of a painted cast
Pierre Dourthe, Bellmer, Le Principe de perversion, Paris, 1999, p. 87, no. 116, illustration in colour of a painted cast
Sue Taylor, Hans Bellmer, The Anatomy of Anxiety, Massachusetts, 2000, p. 122, no. 6.10, illustration of a painted cast
La Révolution Surréaliste (exhibition catalogue), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2000, p. 246, illustration in colour of a painted cast

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Notes: Conceived in 1938 and cast in bronze (commissioned by the Galerie André-François Petit) in 1968 in an edition of eight (four of which are painted) plus two artist's proofs.